Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Cory House

Special Guests: Lucas Reis

In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses simple React patterns with Lucas Reis. Lucas works as a senior front-end developer at Zocdoc and previously worked in Brazil for an ecommerce company called B2W. He recently wrote a blog post about simple React patterns that really took off and became popular on the web. They talk about this blog post, what defines a successful pattern, and then they discuss the different patterns that he has discovered in his years of React programming.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Lucas intro
• Tries to write blog posts as much as possible
• Simple React Patterns blog post
• React
• What does he mean by “successful” patterns?
• Three things that define good patterns
• Define successful?
• The mix component
• The Container/Branch/View pattern
• First successful pattern he has found
• Separation of concerns
• Common concern: are we worried about mixing concerns?
• If/else
• Can you encapsulate in the view?
• Pattern matching
• React loadable
• You need to think of 3 states at least
• Higher-order component
• Render props
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Zocdoc
• B2W
• Simple React Patterns blog post
• React
• Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey
• Lucas’s GitHub
• Lucas’s Blog
• @iamlucasreis

Picks:

Charles

• FullContact
• Udemy

Cory

• Fluent conf
• Immer

Lucas

• Percy
• Be studying the languages and be inspired!

Special Guest: Lucas Reis.